Marc Pollefeys

Marc will contribute to the Robust Vision and Vision and Action theme of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision and is a full professor and head of the Institute for Visual Computing of the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich which he joined in 2007. He leads the Computer Vision and Geometry lab.

Before he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where he also received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1994 and 1999, respectively. His main area of research is computer vision. One of his main research goals is to develop flexible approaches to capture visual representations of real world objects, scenes and events. He is a regular reviewer for most of the major vision, graphics and photogrammetry journals. Marc was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the International Journal of Computer Vision, Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision and several other journals. He is an IEEE Fellow. (Over 13,500 citations and an h-index of 59).